2006-10-03 04:34:23 · 11 answers · asked by Clare B 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
To ensure that all the BBC employees can still afford to buy and consume large quantities of cocaine.
2006-10-03 04:45:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You don't HAVE to pay either. They offer a service and you CHOOSE to have it.
TV is not an essential part of life you know
I'd rather pay £400 licence fee if I could get away from all the adverts.
The answer below is wrong actually. Even if you don't watch BBC you still have to pay a licence if you have a receiver capable of recieving terestrial TV broadcasts. The law hasn't caught up with t'internet in the UK but they are working on it.
If you could buy a tv that had sky integrated into it and couldn't receive terestrial broadcasts you'd be off scott free....so long as you didn't listen to the radio. For some reason no one markets them. I guess Sky can't because the BBC would stop them broadcastng the BBC channels.
2006-10-03 11:42:05 · answer #2 · answered by Michael H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The television licence fee is set by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (a Cabinet Minister) and go directly to the funding of the BBC. The idea of this was to enable the BBC to provide domestic public service broadcasting to educate, inform and entertain, free of commercial advertising. Due to the way it is funded, in theory, the BBC is answerable only to the licence payer.
Basically, channels like Sky and ITV, which are funded by adverts, have no remit to educate, just to entertain. The theory is that by the public funding the BBC, they should make good quality, informative shows leaving the other channels to make the Big Brothers of this world and rake in the dosh!
2006-10-03 11:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The BBC is a public company and is funded by the TV License instead of advertising. As a result there are NO commercial adverts on BBC channels.
I personally think the BBC (for the most part) does a very good job, and if the choice was to pay a TV License or loose the BBC forever, I would definitely choose to pay a TV License.
And no, privatising the BBC won't to anyone any good.
2006-10-03 11:45:00 · answer #4 · answered by keith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but its the same in Ireland. I rarely watch the Irish Channels but these come through Sky now anyway. It seems such a waste to pay a licence fee to RTE (that's our equivalent to BBC) for absolutely nothing. I don't mind paying Sky because there's always something on for me on some channel. I think we're being conned my friend.
2006-10-03 11:37:19 · answer #5 · answered by redhead 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you can have a TV set and watch Sky! If you did not have a licence then you could not watch Sky! It is as simple as that!
Even if you don't watch BBC you still have to have a licence just in case you put it on by mistake one day and you would be breaking the law then!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-03 11:36:51 · answer #6 · answered by Aitch 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You got a damn point Clare B...
They should abolish the damn thing once and for all.
Did you know that the UK is the only country in Europe that you have to pay TV license...
2006-10-03 11:44:50 · answer #7 · answered by Hacker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your paying a licence fee for the tuning equipment you have..i.e t.v, video recorder, radio etc etc
2006-10-03 11:51:03 · answer #8 · answered by mark t 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Government insist we do.
After all, you can always give your dish back and just have 5 channels ...
or just have the free channels on Sky
2006-10-03 11:38:33 · answer #9 · answered by david4thelord 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you can prove you dont watch bbc anything then you dont have to have a license. but how to prove it? no one knows.
bbc are everywhere, there should be a way to opt out of bbc if you want to.
2006-10-03 11:42:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋